The Daltons resided first in Cass county, Mo., then Coffeyville, Kan., then back in Missouri, and finally in the wild Oklahoma Indian Territory. As he lifted the rifle up, Bob shot and killed him. When he returned the next day to watch the house, he discovered that Bob and Emmett had escaped. One of the brothers moved to oklahoma yet died in California. With the help of non-Jewish friends, they began to collect guns to protect themselves. Officers were watching Lit at Clovis Cole's, but didn't think to watch Owen's place. This was also confirmed by Lit Dalton who had also attended the trial and claimed to have had several hour long conversations with Evans.[16]. Right before the deputy ordered Grat to drop his weapon, a dog appeared ten feet from Grat and began barking at the lawman. Kay decided to pursue them with his deputy, Jim Ford, and to capture them if possible. They turned around, and went through the back door, carrying both rifles and sack bags, while taking two other bank employees as cover. They waited until the heavy bearded, two-hundred and thirty pound man was thirty feet from them. The Dalton Chronicles consists of articles contributed by the late DGS Member Rodney Garth Dalton of Utah who passed away on August 28th, 2012. The Daltons had plenty of friends in the area willing to hide them and easily lost Kay once they were in familiar territory. When approached by Kay, Bill told him, "The boys were there when I went to sleep, and when I awakened they had unlocked and gone. After Kay finished talking to the cleaner, Deputy George Witty reported to him that telegrams from the coast said Bill was not in Paso Robles or Estrella. He moved to Hollywood, California, and became a real estate agent, author, and actor, and died in 1937 at age 66. Marshal. This was only a few months after $2,000 in rare two dollar bills had been stolen during a train robbery outside of Goshen (a robbery later attributed to Chris Evans and John Sontag). Very soon, half the businessmen around the plaza knew what was going on, and the message quickly passed throughout the town. It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of James Dalton Hatcher of Bono, Arkansas, who passed away on February 28, 2023, at the age of 66, leaving to mourn family and friends. Even though Sheriff Kay had given up his pursuit of the boys, they still had a $3000 bounty on their heads posted by Wells Fargo and the Southern Pacific Railroad, encouraging lawmen in the area to pick up where Kay had left off. The ride from Mojave to Barstow almost cost them their lives, as they only saw water once in those seventy-five miles of desert. The Dalton brothers were part of a large family headed by parents Adaline Younger Dalton and James Lewis Dalton. Corrections? The brother of James Dutton, Jacob (Harrison Ford) became the family patriarch in his brother's stead in the early 1900s. Grat then rode to a home seven miles south of Livingston, the home of his friend ex-supervisor W.W. Gray. Kay sent Ford after Bob and Emmett while he went to the Ogden police to get them to begin searching the city. Littleton "Litt" Dalton, who was a good and hard-working citizen, believed that his younger siblings became lawless because of the bad influence of . This would've been while Grat was on active duty as Deputy Marshal in Indian Territory, but Sheriff Kay claimed that Grat had told him that he had made two extended trips to California while serving as U.S. Grat, Broadwell, and Powers entered the Condon Bank and Emmett and Bob hurried across Union Street to the First National Bank. [9] Bob had planned the entire robbery. This was a date that Grat had no intention on making. He's uprooted his life as a Tennessee farmer in search of a better life as part of the Westward Expansion. Witty did have a clue from another deputy that two strange men had been seen hanging around after dark on the open plain near Traver and at the abandoned Overland Stage station at Cross Creek. Grat went to the back office and ordered the manager into the front, he then handed the cashier a sack bag and ordered him to fill it with cash from the money drawer. Brothers Bob, "Grat", and Emmett had first worked as lawmen for the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas and then for the Osage Nation. In January 1889, Grat and Bob both became deputies first under Marshal Jones and later under Marshal R.L. They sat to wait for the next train on a bench on the platform, talking and smoking, with their Winchester rifles across their knees. This was also confirmed by Lit Dalton, who had owned a saloon in San Miguel from 1889 to 1890. Emmett reappears on a wanted poster in Les Cousins Dalton his character of tallest of the Dalton Brothers being taken over by Averell Dalton. The boys left their horses in Ludlow, which were then discovered a few weeks later by railroad detectives. However, four of the 15 children loom large in western outlaw folklore: Grat, Bob, Bill and Emmett Dalton. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Beatrice Devonna Dalton, please visit our flower store . Kay apologized to Grat and let him go, but upon visiting the Sol Sweet store Kay learned that Evans had received gold instead of two dollar bills when cashing his check. The posse reached Dalton's camp at nine and split into two groups in order to surround the camp, Kay leading one and Hensley the other. Grat rode away from the house, jumped the horse over an old rock fence, and began yelling and firing his revolver in the air so that Dean would know that he had escaped. Thinking they had lost Kay, Bob and Emmett headed to their mother outside of Kingfisher. He then ordered the bags of silver on the vault floor into his bag, containing $1000 and weighing about 200lb. Instead he caught a cold from sitting in the fog all night. The first look into the Dutton family technically began with Yellowstone, but the first branch of the family tree is filled out with the characters we met in its prequel, 1883. James is also a Civil War veteran, one who suffers from PTSD in a time long before we knew what it was. ratton Hanley DALTON, Charles Benjamin DALTON, Henry Coleman DALTON, Litlleton Lee DALTON, William Mason DALTON, Eva May DALTON, Robert R "Angeles, July 14.W)A retired and respected citiaen at his death, James Lewis Dalton, Adelaine Sullivan Dalton (born Younger). Years after the robberies and his release from prison, Emmett Dalton said that the relentless pressure put on them by Deputy US Marshal Heck Thomas as he hunted for them was a key factor in his gang's decision to commit the robberies. ", Jim Wagy also showed up after the break out to overlook the scene. The next morning, Grat called Wagy over to his cell and asked him where he got such a cold. They decided to form a gang and started robbing trains and banks. Through her brother, Adeline was an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, of the famous James-Younger Gang. Bill Doolin, "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, and Charlie Pierce, none of whom was at Coffeyville, were the only members left of the original Dalton Gang. Kay and his deputy were following only one or two days behind them, but couldn't get any officers at the towns ahead of them to make an arrest. Elizabeth was born on January 13 1715, in Baltimore, Prince George's, Maryland, USA,. Bob and Emmett, meanwhile, had been busy in Oklahoma forming their gang. This also suggests that John Dalton was not a young man, and this could have been a second wife. Bill was finally able to get a loan on some horses from a local rancher, but they were still short one saddle and one of the horses was not fit for a hard ride. Marshals Service, but it was quickly becoming fragmented due to power struggles between newly formed district courts and jealousy between marshals over their different jurisdictions. First recruited were George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb and "Blackfaced" Charlie Bryant, who had received his nickname because of a gunpowder burn on one cheek. The first possibility is town of Dalton, in Lancashire, England, which was originally named Dale-ton, and meant the town in the dale. The Dalton brothers were descendents of Timothy and Elizabeth Dalton of Bedford Co., Virginia and "Lighthorse" Harry Lee and Charles Younger through their parents, James Lewis Dalton (1826-1890) and Adeline Lee Younger (1835-1925). To help pay him the two thousand dollars he asked for, Bill sold almost all of his horses and mules. The four future outlaws first worked as cowboys, but, in 1887, their older brother Frank, a federal deputy marshal, was killed by whiskey runners; in deference, Grat, Bob, and Emmett pinned on lawmens badges. When Kay returned to Visalia, he immediately went with detective Smith to the tailor of the coat found at the Ceres robbery. na Randolph Dalton, Emma Dalton, Robert Rennick Dalton, Eva May Dalton, Mason Dalton, Henry Coleman Coleman Dalton, Gratton Hanley Dalton July 13 1937 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. Emmett Dalton (May 3, 1871 July 13, 1937) was a train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The posse tried firing at Grat through the brush, but he managed to run the mile back to Elwood's ranch. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. Bill had been in a separate cell from Grat, located upstairs. The lawmen aimed their rifles at the man and Hensley ordered him to drop his rifle and unbuckle his revolver belt. Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers. I haven't seen one since I left Missouri. The stakeout ended in Montomerys death. Ken Haas 4/22/12. Also wounded were captains Kinney and LaFlore, but they recovered. Hensley grabbed Dean and took him over the ridge to Kay so they could handcuff him to an oak tree. Yoes told the judge that he was Bill Dalton, the brother of the notorious train robbers, and the judge asked him to introduce them when he came to breakfast. He then sold the lease to his ranch in San Luis Obispo County, moved his family to his wife's parents in Livingston, California, and left for Kingfisher. Southern Pacific detective Will Smith visited Grat's cell almost every day during the trial trying to get a confession out of him and Grat began to despise Smith. They were recognized and, coming out of one bank, were met by wild gunfire from vigilante citizens. He then decided the sack bag was too heavy to carry, and ordered the silver taken out, then stashed what cash he could fit into his coat pockets. Threatened with prison time, Smith told Kay that Middleton could be followed to Dalton's camp when he carried him supplies. Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. A later report in the Visalia Times-Delta, a major newspaper in Visalia, California, attributed to "a relative of Mrs. Evans" (most likely Chris Evans brother-in-law Perry Byrd, a deputy of Sheriff Gene Kay) stated, "Tom Evans killed at Coffeyville, Kansas, when the Dalton brothers made their famous raid on the banks of that town, was the twin brother of Chris."[19]. When Grat recovered, he was able to escape with the help of his brother Cole. Kay asked Rucker if there was anyone else around and she replied that there wasn't. Bill had returned to Oklahoma several months earlier, living at his mother's house near Kingsfisher. Smith instead went north and several weeks later was arrested by Kay. Emmett Dalton was portrayed by Frank Albertson. Lit noticed that Grat's horse was indeed limp and agreed to help Grat sell it. The remaining years of Emmetts life were spent on the stage, writing a book on the family and the Raid "When the Daltons Rode" in 1931 and as a real estate developer in California. He would, he claimed, "beat anything Jesse James ever didrob two banks at once, in broad daylight." ", "Emmett Dalton Biography Oct. 5-10, 1892", "The Eagles on Desperado: "We were quite taken with the idea of being outlaws", "Emmett Dalton His Life After the Coffeyville Raid", "Heck Thomas Tough Law in Indian Territory", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_Gang&oldid=1142764666, Articles needing additional references from December 2022, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Charles Benjamin "Ben" Dalton (18521936).